Police Move Across Sicily To Arrest Mafia Suspects

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April 8, 1995

ROME — Italian police Friday launched a dawn blitz across western Sicily, issuing arrest warrants for almost 100 Mafia suspects accused of being involved in a string of murders stretching back more than 20 years, officers said. In a separate operation, police in the eastern Sicilian city of Catania seized shares worth $300 million from constructor Gaetano Graci and members of his family in what was described as the biggest ever operation of its kind. Shares in firms involved in property, tourism, building and banking were seized. Graci was arrested last July over alleged links with jailed Catania boss Benedetto ''Nitto'' Santapaola but released three months later on health grounds.